It's 1944 and the country needs steel - a lot of steel -
to fight the world war. This KGB&W gondola is spotted at the salvage
yard, ready to take a load of scrap iron to the mill to be converted
into new steel.

Diecast Direct has diecast vehicles lettered for the
Green Bay & Western RR. has diecast vehicles lettered for the Green
Bay & Western RR. Included are a 1955 Chevy pickup (1:43 scale) and
a White WC22 dump truck (1:50 scale).

Southern California S Gaugers Train Club produced a
custom run of Lionel American Flyer reefers painted as WRX 526. The car
is a special run for the club's second annual "S Fest West
2013" show held this past May. The club has a few cars remaining
for sale.

Merrill Publishing Associates is discontinuing
publication of the Roy Campbell Collection line of books, including 'The
Green Bay & Western Steam Era' and 'Wisconsin Shortline &
Logging Steam.' They are having a 'Last Chance' sale on their website
and will continue to publish train books that are not from the
collection and plan to continue producing books for railfans. More
information is available at merrillpublishingassociates.com.

Bluford Shops is producing HO scale transfer cabooses in
five different body styles. At this time a model lettered for the
GB&W is not available, but the Bluford Shops representative in
Milwaukee told me that they plan on producing all of the road names
previously done in N scale-- and GBW #102 & #104 were in their N
scale line.

Western Refrigerator Lines started in 1929 with a fleet
of 500 wood refrigerator cars for GB&W customers; by the 1960s most
of the remaining cars were painted gray and had the simplified lettering
scheme shown.

SpecCast is producing a model of a 1950s White WC22 dump
truck and a White WC22 lowboy lettered for the Green Bay Route. The
die-cast models have rubber tires, opening doors, hood and end gate and
a detailed engine.

Western Refrigerator Lines #9350-9351 had a short life on
the WRX roster in the late 1960s, but these two cars were then repainted
and renumbered to GBW 22090-22091 in 1971 and remained in service
through the end of the GBW in 1993.

WrightTRAK is producing a polyurethane resin kit for a
KOG/MP/GBW caboose. An ex-MP caboose from this class was put in service
on the GB&W in 1981 and was typically assigned to the 'Plover local'
which served the paper mills in Central Wisconsin, then assigned to the
Green Bay - Kewaunee 'Boat Train' starting around January 1990.

GBW 10000-10099 were 70-ton, 50'6", Plate C boxcars
(former East Camden & Highland 2351-2499) which came to the railroad
in three batches during 1981 - 1984. They had minimal repainting when
put into GBW service. They went off the roster in 1991.

Bachmann is producing an Alco 2-6-0 Mogul in DCC-ready
and DCC sound-equipped models. The pre-production model appears to be
very similar to GBW #56/256 with the correct boiler shape, driver
spacing, dome placement, bell, headlight, piping and tender. The major
difference between the model and the prototype is the placement of the
air pumps on the fireman's side.

WrightTRAK is considering producing a polyurethane resin
kit for a KOG/MP/GBW caboose. One of these former KOG/MP cabooses was
added to the GBW roster the summer of 1980 and it remained with the
railroad until the WC's purchase of the GBW in 1993.

The model would be based on the company's SCL
International Car Company caboose kit with new tooling for the sides and
ends of the car. In order to make the project viable, WrightTRAK
requires a minimum 100 preorders for the kit. More details are on the WrightTRAK
home page.

This 'pull-quick' pack of ten matches uses a hidden
ignition striker strip to ignite the round wooden match sticks as they
were quickly pulled from the container and is probably from the 1930s or
1940s.

The magazine article 'General American/Evans 50-foot DF
box cars, part I,' in Mainline Modeler, March 1990, Hundman Publishing
added. It has a photo of GAEX 112000, which was leased by GBW in the
1960s & 70s.

The Friends of Tomorrow River
State Trail invite everyone to join in celebrating the opening of a
new portion of the trail starting at 1 p.m.
June 4, 2005, beginning with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
The new trail incorporates eight miles of ex-GBW right-of-way from near
Amherst Junction to Scandinavia.

It's a beautiful spring day in Wisconsin
as a Green Bay & Western RS-2 blasts its signature black smoke while
pulling a one of the GBW's yellow boxcars from the Pauly Cheese Company
located in Green Bay's "cheese house" district.

LBF Company may be producing their 52'-6'' general
service gondola with fluted sides and strap ends lettered for GBW. The
Railroad Ready´┐Ż model will be decorated in the USA and assembled
in China with metal wheels and McHenry couplers. Four different road
numbers. Anticipated delivery date: Fall 2004.

Similar to GBW 6000-6298, but with 3/3/3 dreadnaught
ends. Ron Stuckey photo, from the collection of Andy
Laurent. This is one of the car numbers that 5th Avenue Shops
used on their KGB boxcar and is a great view showing the lumber end of
the boxcar. Notice the end lettering above the coupler. See more
cars in the Freight Car
Photo Roster.

Twenty-five double door boxcars arrived in 1930 for
automobile service; they were later rebuilt as single door cars as
shown in this photo. Note the deep side sill where the double door had
been. The last of these cars were retired in 1970.

Overland Models has announced a brass model of an Alco
RS-3 with a phase 3 car body. The model will be fabricated by Ajin
Precision of Seoul, Korea and be factory painted in the GBW
red-and-gray scheme. (Expected during 2004.)

MTH Electric Trains is producing a
Jordan Spreader painted and lettered for the GBW 1980s-90s scheme. The
model had moveable plow wings, interior and headlight lighting, and
can operate on O-31 curves. It is available lettered for GBW X190 or
X191.

Model News: Weaver
Models is producing models of two-bay offset side hoppers. The
ready-to-run cars come in 2-rail and 3-rail versions and will have 12
different road numbers. They are painted in the yellow late
1960s-1980s scheme.

Model News: GB TV
Service & Trains is producing a special run of Atlas O 40' wood
Western Refrigerator Lines reefers with billboard lettering for
Reynold's Cherryland Cherries, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The cars are
available with two different numbers in 2-rail and 3-rail versions.

Model News:
Micro-Trains has reissued its N scale GBW 50-foot standard boxcar. The
car has yellow sides/ends/roof, black lettering with car number #3020,
a red/white herald, Youngstown 8-foot door, roof walk, and high
ladders. This car was originally released as GBW #3027 in October
1984.

Model News: Branchline
Trains is producing a limited edition of their 40' ACF Reefer lettered
for the GBW subsidiary Western Refrigerator Lines. The cars has the
simplified scheme used in the late 1940s and 1950s.